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Why Don't Juries Try Range Voting?, F.E. Guerra-Pujol
Why Don't Juries Try Range Voting?, F.E. Guerra-Pujol
F.E. Guerra-Pujol
In this paper, the author proposes the use of a simple “range voting” method by juries in which jurors would rate or score on a scale of zero to ten (or some other specified scale) the evidence presented by the parties at trial. The jury’s verdict would thus consist of a numerical value, either the average or the sum total of all the individual scores, which the author refers to as a “range verdict.” Range voting by juries thus produces a numerical verdict, a range verdict, consisting of an average value or total sum, and a plaintiff or other moving …
The Poker-Litigation Game, F.E. Guerra-Pujol
The Poker-Litigation Game, F.E. Guerra-Pujol
F.E. Guerra-Pujol
Is civil and criminal litigation a search for truth, like science or philosophy, or a game of skill and luck, like the game of poker? Although the process of litigation has been modeled as a Prisoner’s Dilemma, as a War of Attrition, as a Game of Chicken, and even as a simple coin toss, no one has formally modeled litigation as a game of poker. This paper is the first to do so. Specifically, we present a simple “poker-litigation game” and find the optimal strategy for playing this game.